Asparaginase, which is found in various plant, animal and bacterial cells, catalyses the deamination of asparagine to yield aspartic acid and an ammonium ion, resulting in a depletion of free circulatory asparagine in plasma [3026924]. The enzyme is effective in the treatment of human malignant lymphomas, which have a diminished capacity to produce asparagine synthetase: in order to survive, such cells absorb asparagine from blood plasma [2407723, 3379033] - if Asn levels have been depleted by injection of asparaginase, the lymphoma cells die. Glutaminase, a similar enzyme, catalyses the deaminination of glutamine to glutamic acid and an ammonium ion [2407723]. Both enzymes are homotetramers [3026924]: two threonine residues in the N-terminal half of the proteins are involved in the catalytic activity.

Browse genome assignments for this superfamily. The SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov model library has been used to carry
out SCOP domain assignments to all genomes at the superfamily level.

Alignments of sequences to 8 models
in this superfamily are available by clicking on the 'Alignments' icon above. PDB sequences less than 40% identical
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Browse and view proteins in genomes which have
different domain combinations including a Glutaminase/Asparaginase domain.

Examine the distribution of domain superfamilies, or families, across the major taxonomic kingdoms or genomes within a kingdom. This gives an immediate impression of how superfamilies, or families, are restricted to certain kingdoms of life.

There are 8 hidden Markov models representing the Glutaminase/Asparaginase superfamily. Information on how the models are built, and plots showing hydrophobicity, match emmission probabilities and insertion/deletion probabilities can be inspected.